michtzik

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by michtzik 3mo ago
The article at one point says "No two members of the 26-man roster play on the same club team" about the USMNT. However, it seems that these two players both play for PSV Eindhoven: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by michtzik 5mo ago
> Canada honored its commitments. Two decades ago: "in 2006, NATO Defence Ministers agreed to commit a minimum of 2% of their GDP to defence spending." Canada has not remotely upheld this agreement.
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by michtzik 5mo ago
Literally all of your comparison events are so newsworthy that they have individual Wikipedia articles.
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by michtzik 5mo ago
TFA mentions that EFF continues to post on Facebook and Instagram.
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by michtzik 6mo ago
Who is contractually obligated to buy?
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by michtzik 8mo ago
> I explained that anything less than a progressive tax was going to make the poor pay more and the wealthy pay less. Here's a formally-verified proof in Lean that with a flat tax, if you have more income, then you pay more tax: ht
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by michtzik 8mo ago
Yup, this inspires great confidence in the source. > 10,109 ... left their jobs > departures outnumbered new hires last year by a ratio of 11 to one That means that there were ~919 new hires, and thus it seems that 10,109 minus 919 eq
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by michtzik 9mo ago
If you only eat it when you have a grandma that remembers how to make it, I would consider that the very definition of "traditional". And also interesting to hear about! (But yea, perhaps not "everyone here eats" in that
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by michtzik 11mo ago
Previously in the United States, schools taught "all men are created equal" to people that could see that they weren't being treated that way. Similarly, today we teach the importance of "universal suffrage" to kids
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by michtzik 11mo ago
Of course this is just a snide remark that doesn't contribute to the conversation, but it can be interesting to dive deeper: For example, why don't the kids themselves have the right to vote?
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by michtzik 1y ago
Looking at the flagged comments throughout this thread, perhaps https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45354759 is the closest to being flag-killed for a different opinion.
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by michtzik 1y ago
The Caspian pipeline you mention (CPC) goes through ... Russia. And CPC Blend again blends in Russian oil. So we find that, once again, Germany is buying "Kazakh" oil that is transported by Russia and mixed with Russian oil.
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by michtzik 1y ago
Here's a news story about how Druzhba supplies to Germany weren't particularly interrupted by recent attacks you may be alluding to: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germanys-kazakh-oil-... And he
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by michtzik 1y ago
Your parent comment is correct. Germany buys millions of tons of "Kazakh" oil via the Druzhba pipeline, arriving at the PCK refinery in Schwedt. This oil is "blended" with Russian oil, and in any case is transported by R
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by michtzik 1y ago
> I've never seen 2k+ comments nor posts about other shootings on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370622 (also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899 was even more discussed, but it
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by michtzik 1y ago
What did she say?
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by michtzik 1y ago
B-29s dropped the atomic bombs. The B-29 project was also more expensive than the Manhattan project: > The $3 billion cost of design and production (equivalent to $52 billion in 2024), far exceeding the $1.9 billion cost of the Manhattan
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by michtzik 1y ago
I did some minimal searching for Seattle and explosions in 2020 and I found plenty of sources reporting on different supposed explosions, at different times and places (within Seattle). Seems perfectly plausible to me. https://my
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by michtzik 1y ago
From Wikipedia right now: 2024: Trump 77,302,580 2020: Trump 74,223,975
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by michtzik 1y ago
I'm intrigued as to which comment this was supposed to be a reply to, and how it got here.
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by michtzik 1y ago
For the reader curious why the woman in [0] didn't get permanent residency via marriage: > Milne was divorced from the nonimmigrant student she married prior to 1983. She then married a U.S. citizen but we found, in our above-said u
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by michtzik 1y ago
The study also doesn't include the successful suicides.
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by michtzik 1y ago
https://www.cpsc.gov/About-CPSC/Commissioner/Richard-Trumka/... https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/business/gas-stove-ban-federa... https://www.npr.org/2024&#x
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by michtzik 1y ago
Suppose you actually had some data to back up your comments, and you made a graph for "blindness caused by measles" over time. Do you have any reason to believe it wouldn't look just like the mortality rate graph linked above
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by michtzik 1y ago
Some number of years ago, I looked at the map on this page and tried to find the eruv on the west side, near 14th St and a few streets below. My conclusion was the eruv wasn't there (despite the green checkmark on the website), making
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by michtzik 1y ago
The page I linked to has a top-level section called "Infertility". It has a table with a column called "1 or more births". The data in the table say that a positive proportion of those women are infertile. As I said the
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by michtzik 1y ago
> What part of 1/6 the population don't you understand? Is this ignorance willful? The 1/6 number is made up. Here's an example source: https://www.who.int/news/item/04-04-2023-1-in-6-people
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by michtzik 1y ago
The FIRE Campus Deplatforming Database claims to collect 769 successful deplatforming attempts.
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by michtzik 1y ago
https://www.foxnews.com/world/spanish-politician-suspended-b...
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by michtzik 1y ago
> nobody is perplexed about how they moved stones Plenty of people, including myself, are perplexed about how they moved stones. Specifically, how 60--80 ton stones were moved up .

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